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If you are interested
in making a difference and participating in this project, here is how
you can help:
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Student Nominations:
Please consider inviting students who
have maintained a GPA of 2.8
or higher to write their personal stories. For
more information on submission requirements, please see below;
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Disseminate Our Information:
Inform others about the project and our website who you
think may be interested and wish to collaborate or who just want to find
out more information; and,
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Review Student
Submissions: If you are interested in reviewing
the student submissions for the project, please contact us via our email
addresses below;
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Consider becoming an Endorser/Sponsor for
the Project: If you are a business/corporation,
magazine editor, or interested in talking with us in more detail about
the Project, please contact us via our email addresses below.
Submission Requirements
for Students' Stories
Students would be required to complete:
a) demographic sheet (click
here to open that document), and
b)
organize their responses around the
following questions:
1. How
would you describe the environment at your school?
2. What is it like to be Latina/o at your school?
3. What happens when you have a problem at school?
a) With your friends?
b) With your family?
4. Do you always use these things (skills, strategies) to deal with
these problems?
5. What on-campus social supports, groups, clubs, or offices do you have
to help you succeed academically?
6. What off-campus social supports, groups or clubs do you have to help
you succeed academically?
7. What values do you think your school rewards the most?
8. Is there any link between your cultural values and the values you
have at school?
a) If so, what are they?
b) How do you manage the school values and your cultural
values if they are different?
9. Does the ethnicity of your teacher make a difference in your interest
or success in a class?
10. What do you recommend that your school does to best support you and
your educational goals?
11. Are there any final comments or thoughts?
Students should submit their stories to:
Carlos P. Zalaquett,
Ph.D.
University of South Florida, EDU162
4202 E. Fowler Avenue
Tampa, FL 33620
All of
the stories will be considered for inclusion in this national web site.
Each story will be sent to two randomly selected professionals for
documentation. The professionals will be asked to evaluate if the stories
could serve to encourage other Latina/o youth to pursue a degree in higher
education. The following questions will guide their evaluations: Does the
story represent the challenges Latina/o students face in their quest for
higher education? Does the story suggest what kind of elements helped the
student to overcome these challenges? Does the story present a positive
role model that can inspire other Latina/o students to believe that they
too can pursue a higher education degree? This evaluative step is included
to ensure the representativeness and relevancy of the stories for Latina/o
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